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- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: The guidelines are important. There are constitutional issues in terms of property rights and what owners of property may wish to do with it. There is also the balancing of the effective use of solar power vis-à-vis the necessity of food security and food production. The area of the country Deputy O'Connor mentioned is probably the best agricultural land in the country. Anyone who...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: That is not a bad way to finish.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: We need to engage on this too. More than 500,000 jobs have been created since this Government took office. Some 75% of those new jobs were created outside Dublin. The mantra for years was that it was all Dublin-based, IDA-created jobs. That is not the case any more. The Government has mandated the IDA to look to secure at least 50% of all new jobs outside of Dublin. Approximately 1,800...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: No, they do not lie. Jobs are up by 18%. The 3,000 beds provided by the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, and the Department of Health are regionally proofed. They are across the entire region. All our training for nurses, due to decisions I took as far back as 2003, is regionalised. We gave the institutes the technology the capacity to train for nursing therapies way back. That is the...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: I have no issue with meeting and will meet this representative group. I may not be able to do so today because the Iraqi Minister of Foreign Affairs is visiting Ireland and I have to meet him after this session. The Government is close to finalising a Covid inquiry. As I said, the objective of an inquiry into Covid and how the country managed it should be an evaluation to make sure that...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: Some 28,000 extra staff have been recruited since 2020. I regret that people, notwithstanding the context of 28,000 extra staff, including 9,000 extra nurses, feel that is a cause for industrial action. I acknowledge that there may be HR practices within the HSE that need addressing, but 4,000 staff alone have been regularised, which includes 2,000 extra people employed during Covid without...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: I already articulated my horror at what is happening in Gaza, the West Bank and Lebanon, and my condemnation of what I consider to be war crimes and breaches of international humanitarian law. However, the presentation that the Government is somehow facilitating this is an outrageous assertion. We are facilitating no carriage of weapons to Israel or any other part of the world. That...
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----if they want to fly through our airspace with weapons. If that company has flouted law-----
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: The way the Deputy presented it was less than accurate.
- Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: In the Fianna Fáil Party, for close to a decade now, we have had a free vote on issues to do with life or an issue of conscience. That will remain the position in respect of this proposed legislation. Even though I do not agree with such legislation and have very serious reservations about it, nonetheless, it will be a vote of conscience for each individual member of our party. I...
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: I commend the Deputy's mastery of alliteration but what he said is not true. The bottom line is-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----that very significant funding has been allocated to retrofitting.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: Let me take the issue. There is an allocation to social protection that goes into the various schemes to do with fuel poverty and that is very clear in terms of what we have done on the fuel allowance.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: I am answering the question. The retrofitting has been an enormous allocation-----
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: -----and has come from the carbon fund. That has also happened in terms of the €113 million in carbon tax funding that has been allocated to agri-environment schemes.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: What we could do, and I invite the Deputy to support me in this because he has genuine concerns about where the funding is going, is legislate to ring-fence the funding.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: I think that would satisfy the Deputy's needs but I wonder whether he would be supportive of that if the next Government was to bring in legislation to ring-fence the funding for specific purposes.
- Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (17 Oct 2024)
Micheál Martin: There is no missing money. It is all being spent.